Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said he voted against the reauthorization “because it failed to include the most important requirement to protect Americans’ civil rights: that law enforcement get a warrant before targeting a US citizen.”
Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point
Well he would have to be against warrantless searches if his father is the Zodiac killer
Goddamn. What in the fuck is this timeline even. Now we need a THIRD secured device to secure comms between a remote server to stop MITM shit for fucks sake. Time to go deeper I guess.
Can’t wait for people to tell me how this is actually a great thing and we need to cheer for this…
Well…Trump didn’t sign it…It must be good right?
don’t be stupid.
There’s an exception to the rule that prohibits spying on religious groups.
Who wants to start an anti-surveillance religion?
I don’t think that’ll save you.
https://peoplesworld.org/article/hearings-lawsuit-slam-bush-spying-defense/
NBC News obtained a secret 400-page Pentagon document that listed the Truth Project as a “credible threat” to national security. The Pentagon sent an agent to spy on the group’s first meeting at the Quaker Meeting House in Lake Worth in 2004, one of almost four dozen similar meetings nationwide infiltrated on Bush-Cheney orders.
The report revealed that the Defense Department spy operation kept tabs on 1,500 “suspicious incidents” such as distribution of antiwar leaflets at high schools, peace vigils and town hall meetings.
Eight people are active in the Truth Project, Hersh said, including Quakers, a 79-year-old grandmother and Hersh himself, partially disabled by a nerve disease that often confines him to a wheelchair.
Hersh added with a chuckle, “Yes, I guess we are a ‘credible threat.’ The truth is always a threat to those who are lying. We are always a threat to illegitimate and unjust powers.”
SLAMMIN back in ‘06!
Everyone hates Rand Paul but he voted no on this, as did others on the left and the right. Fuck fascism and fuck left authoritarianism.
Neoliberals are conservatives. Always have been. By all international standards, the Democrat party is a conservative party and the Republicans are a more conservative party. We don’t currently have a viable left/progressive party.
The entirety of the left-of-center in the US is a handfull of progressives, at most.
By international standards Biden is hard-right, Trump is far-right.
This shit is full-on rightwing authoritarianism.
And yet I still hate Rand Paul.
Hitler loved dogs.
You think the government would ever get rid of powers like these? Of course not!
Joe Biden, while loading a very large gun: “It would be terrible if Donald Trump ever got his hands on this.”
Donald Trump, having loaded that same gun 4 years ago: “We have to retake the White House from this far-left communist maniac, because he’s going to use that very large gun against White People!”
What a fucking racket.
People think about Red vs. Blue, but the world is ruled by Purple.
How is this even constitutional. Does the 4th amendment even exist?
Only if you’re rich enough.
The government is defining this to be reasonable search. Crisis averted! Please scan your iris on the way out of this thread.
What is unreasonable then?
So it seems that there are indeed issues where “both sides” agree.
The worst legislation that gets passed is typically the bill every Congressman agrees on. If you didn’t have to fight through six committees and an extended filibuster, you can assume it must have been a Christmas Tree of kickbacks and crimes.
From the outsider perspective those aren’t sides but teams going to the same goal with slightly different tactics.
Non-sensationalized summary from the article:
Although Section 702 authorizes electronic surveillance of non-US people overseas, the official summary of the reauthorization bill notes that "information about US persons may incidentally be acquired by this type of surveillance and subsequently searched or ‘queried’ under certain circumstances.”
The reauthorization bill imposes some new limits on data collection. For example, FBI personnel must obtain prior approval from an FBI supervisor or attorney before making queries about US people. But this provision has an exception allowing such queries without prior approval if “the query could assist in mitigating or eliminating a threat to life or serious bodily harm.”
There are also some new limits on queries involving elected US officials, political candidates, political organizations, media organizations, journalists, and religious groups. There is a prohibition on “the involvement of political appointees in the approval process for such politically sensitive query requests,” and a requirement that the FBI director "establish consequences for noncompliant querying of US person terms, including zero tolerance for willful misconduct.”
“this is why it’s good” meme
